Illinois Valley News, Thursday, April 24, 1941 4 TIPS t0 (jarden ers ARED WHITE At M LI INSTALLMENT FIFTEEN THE STORY SO FAR: More than 100.000 foreign troop* which had been secretly transported Co .Mexico suddenly Invaded the United Stales. Intelligence Officer Benning had discovered their plans while a spy In Mrxlro City where he bad gained the confidence of Flncke and Bravot, two enemy officers, but bis warnings had gone unheeded Foreign forces bed by Van Hassell pushed re­ lentlessly forward. His troops were vast­ ly superior In numbers and equipment to the American forces which opposed him. Returning to New York, Benning TRIM FLOWER GARDEN HERE is much value in keep­ ing the flower garden trimmed. unearthed a vast spy rlni Benning eon- PASTE PLAIN FABRIC Wise gardeners pick bouquets of INSIDE AND FIGURED tinued to pose as a friend when he ■ . OUTSIDE unexpectedly met Fincke In WathmBACK OF BIAS k Brazos.” type of plant. This treatment may OUTSIDE I -Hi TAPE ■ LET DRY HAT "AU right. Mole, use your own be applied to Ageratum, Linaria, ] AND THEN PLACE CROWN f. -TAPE OVER EDGE jjogment," Lannes retorted. "But Lobelia, and Nemesia as well as J AND PRESS WITH no matter what it costs, we’ve got to Alyssum. 1 , . A WARM IRON JOIN ENDS' WITH GUMMED TAPE ' delay Van Hassek until I can get Pinks, Cynoglossum, and Dwarf my Third Army ready to stop himl” Bedding Rust Resistant Snap­ EMININE headgear usually dragon are grown both for cutting holds its shape best if it rests CHAPTER XVII and for garden beauty, but they right up on a stand that fits too will profit by a thoroughgoing inside side the crown, but this is not Benning woke from a brief fret­ "haircut” such as that prescribed true of a man’s hat. Its dashing ful sleep and went to a porthole. for the smaller, edging favorites. There was a bright sun rising across It is advisable to pick the flow­ lines may be preserved by plac­ a smooth sea. He calculated from ers of certain popular perennials ing it upside down in a holder. the speed of the freighter that the when they are in their prime, to The man’s hat box, shown here, craft must be well down the coast prevent their running to seed, and is covered on the outside with ma­ of Virginia, perhaps off North Caro­ to promote the production of a sec­ roon and blue cotton print and lina and not far from Cape Hat­ ond crop of blossoms in a single lined with blue chambray. The lid teras. For a time last night he 1 ecason. Delphinium, Sweet Wil- and the front of the box are hinged had flirted with the desperation of lliam, Coreopsis, Perennial Di- with adhesive tape before the cov­ jumping overboard on the chance cf j anthus, and Pyrethrum should be ering is pasted on with stiff paste. making shore. Now he had given handled in this manner. The stand is made of cardboard, # # * # * a if * # CHAPTER XV—Continued that set the earth shaking under The boat bobbed across the har­ them. bor; Benning decided that Bravot “In spite of hell and high water!" must be headed back for some se­ he concluded as the room cleared of cret rendezvous in New York, a part vibrations. "It'll take me days to of some crafty maneuver to cover straighten out this tangle and it’ll his littered trail. In that event Ben­ only take Van' Hassek a few hours ning decided to strike in the dark­ to run up here with his motorized and ness the instant the launch reached mechanized outfits!” shore. "General Hague probably has told A few minutes later the launch you. sir,” Flagwill said, "that we’ve swerved sharply out of its course got to hold on this line. The coun­ and slowed down. Benning saw the try is in an uproar and everyone massive shadow of a ship looming in Washington, sir, feels we’ve got over his head. A voice called to have a victory." down from above. Bravot got "Sure we’ve got to hold!” Lannes to his feet, edged his way to raged. "But don’t forget that fifty the bow. A boatman made the thousand men are fifty thousand sol­ launch fast to the ship's ladder. One diers only when they’re shaken by one the passengers swung onto down, organized, supplied, and the ladder and were swallowed up ready to fight." by the night. The Army commander stalked to "Go ahead, Bromlitz!" a voice a wall map and pointed to his dispo- commanded when Benning hesitat­ sitions and immediate plan of ac­ up hopes of being rescued by the ed. tion. Fincke caught Benning’s arm, "Mole is taking an artillery lac­ Navy. He was mulling at the porthole gently forced him forward. Benning ing at this minute, which means at­ made a swift estimate as he stood in tack on him at daybreak. With the when a figure passed along the boat indecision. Quickly he saw that but reinforcements I’ve sent up. he must deck close to his eyes. The fellow one course lay ahead. In the bob­ hold on the Colorado as long as wore a black mustache, dark horn­ bing little boat he knew he would possible. Then he’s got to fight de­ rimmed glasses; his clothes were stand no chance if he put up a fight laying actions and make another seedy and his shoulders sagged. But the profile was not to be mistaken. for possession of the craft. As for desperate stand behind the Brazos "You knew Bravot was aboard?” ■wimming ashore, even the strongest Somehow Mole must delay Van Has­ swimmer could not expect success sek at least three days, maybe for Benning said to Fincke. The Austrian hotly admonished, in that feat tonight. a week, until I can get in shape to Benning swung to the ladder and take the enemy on here in front of "Don’t talk so much, Bromlitz! How mounted to the deck, Close behind Dallas. It’s going to cost us a lot many times have I got to tell you not to mention names?” him came Fincke. On the deck "I thought we were clear of all there was a glow of light from an that trouble,” Benning retorted. incandescent. "Not with a brand-new crew on Inside the Austrian tossed off his the boat, We still got to watch our coat and stretched himself. His face tongues.” now was exuberant. “You think these sailors aren’t "Himmel, but what a comfort, Bravot’s men?” Bromlitz!" he exclaimed with a vast "Just use your bean, Bromlitz. sigh of relief "Now a fellow can bailors wouldn’t hardly sign up to take a free breath." get blown to hell, if they knew Fincke paused to give Benning a the score.” knowing wink. “I-presume,” Benning sneered, “What does it matter if we’re sit­ "the captain and crew don’t even ting over a cargo of high explosives, know what their cargo Is?” eh, Bromlitz? It’ll not blow up until "The skipper knows, and a few of we give the command—and that'll hi» good men. For two years play the biggest card in the whole Schmolz has been laying his plans Van Hassek deck! Cheer up, Brom­ for just this cruise.” litz. in ten days from now you’ll be The door of their cabin banged back with your girl in Mexico City I” suddenly open. A chunky man with Now it was all to clear to Ben­ a squarish, rough-hewn, leering face ning Fincke at last had vitalized swaggered in. The fellow wore a tlie meaning of this cruise, the rea­ dirty cotton suit and an officer’s son for his own restless misappre­ cap, and bristled with authority and hensions This ship, with its curgo short temper. of explosives, clearing New York "Who are you two?" he demand­ with papers for San Francisco, was ed. searching first Fincke’s face, part of an intricately laid plot to then Benning's. destroy the Panama Canal and strip The Van Hassek spy leaped to his the Atlantic seaboard of the protec­ feet and gave the identification for­ tion of the United States fleet. mula. Benning was more leisurely in rising to identify himself. He "Take your hands oil iny coat." guessed that the intruder was General Hague nervously paced of men. Flagwill, a lot of men! But Schmolz. skipper of the ship, "I don’t like your looks!" the fel- the floor of his office despite the I want you to go out and see the long days of driving toil and anxi­ situation for yourself — and tell low blurted, fixing Benning with ety that had drained his energies to Hague why I’m forced into these glinting green eyes. "Don’t worry about him, Cap­ tlie point of exhaustion. The last desperate delaying actions out in tain,” Fincke promptly intervened. troop trains had moved south with front!” the force of fifty thousand men that An hour of patient driving put "He’s a major—the two of us been was to stop Van Hassek on the Fort Flagwill down the Army's projected working together in the United Worth-Dallas line. But reports from front Whole regiments stood about States.” Schmolz rubbed a cauliflowered the south shook him with new mis­ in the dawn, still waiting for orders givings and he had sent for Colonel and supplies The men were tired ear ruminatively and gave Benning a parting glare in which there was Flagwill. and hungry Shortage of ammunition mingled distrust and dislike. Young Benning got away tins was general, even in the infantry. "Major or no major, there’s some­ morning for Mexico City, didn't he?" Ammunition was reported available thing about your looks I don’t like,” Flagwill's face dropped. "Sorry. at the railhead, but the railhead General Benning has vanished in was swamped with demands and he grumbled. Their noon meal was brought in thin air Not a word from him all there were insufficient truck trains by an American deckhand. Grimes. day.” at present for all purposes. . After luncheon, Fincke went out on "Benning missing?" General As the sun shot over the horizon. Hague scowled incredulity. “That Flagwill turned back to the Lannes deck for exercise. With the compli­ cation of Bravot’s presence on the doesn’t sound like Benning " command post. Squadrons of Amer­ ship, Benning knew he must keep "I authorized him to follow a ican combat planes had combed the to cover during daylight. Also that Van Hassek agent aboard a Norwe­ air of Van Hassek's night hawks he must strike against the Van Has­ gian tramp freighter, thinking we'd and the day had quieted down to a get a haul of spies. A destroyer rumble of artillery columns and sek spymaster without delay if he expected to survive this cruise for overhauled the boat last night after hum of friendly planes. many days. it sailed, only to find Benning was Given a day or two. Flagwill con- Benning sweltered in the torrid lit­ not aboard as planned. The ship's eluded, the hastily assembled Third tle cabin through an insufferable captain claimed not to have seen Army would shake itself down. day. With full darkness he examined anyone resembling Benning " American ingenuity somehow would the mechanism of his automatic pis­ "Nothing should have prevented overcome the shortages of supplies, Benning's flight to Mexico City, motor vehicles, the obsolescent or­ tol and went out on deck. As he sus­ riagwiU,” Hague complained "All ganization tables, the unco-ordinat­ pected. Bravot was living in the cap­ tain's quarters. Looking in the port­ right, let's hope he 'urns up soon.” ed staffs, outmoded weapons, the Flagwill drove at once to Bolling lack of training in team-play of h igh- hole he saw Bravot sitting alone on his berth, his face cold and Field where a fast new 0-47 obser obser- ­ er units. At least the officers had vation plane put him in the air short­ sound academic training in the sci­ perturbable as he listened to news from the Texas front. ly before dusk Seven hours later, ence of war. Blare of the radio blotted out as the plane approached Dallas, a General Lannes, his face flushed er sounds on the deck and Benning rudio warning told tl\e pilot to avoid and harried, his eyes distended, sat was not conscious of the figure driv­ the Dalias airport and put down at fAerishly at the end of a field tele­ ing down on him along the dimly an emergency iahdtng-field south phone as Flagwill re-entered the lighted deck until stout fingers ol the city command post After a staceato, closed on the lapel of his coat The savoge wlruvS uf detonation fretted exchange he hung up the re­ He turned to see Schmolz glaring bombs caught Flagwill's eye as his ceiver nd got to his feet. at him out of eyes that seethed with plane drove past the city. No soon­ "Vati Hassek is driving at Mole rage. er had hit. plane roared to a stop in with everything he's got this morn­ "See here. Schmolz!” Benning ing:" Lannes roared. "Only the reg­ the emergency field than his ears shot back hotly, "I'm not one of rang with tlie bedlam of air bom­ iments 1 sent up to him last night your deckhands Take your hands bardment over Dallas A staff i>m- kept Mole from being cracked up off my coat! If you object to my Says he'll be cer from Army headquarters was early this morning listening to the war news over your lucky to hold on till nine My God. waiting for him radio, why don't you post an order "Dallas and Fort Worth are tak- Flagwill, this mess is going to cost to that effect?” ing an awful beating tonight," the us five thousand men, maybe ten I" "Listen all you want to.” Schmolz Bv eight o'clock. Mole saw he staff officer reported "We're forced mumbled, cooling perceptibly at the could hold no longer Ghastly losses to detrain troops and impedimenta rebuff and releasing Benning's col­ were multiplying, his flanks were north of the city. An hour ago a lar. "But keep away from in front threatened Now the American air bomber registered on one of our of my stateroom after this. I don't troop trains—three hundred men service held the supremacy of the allow nobody to do that” killed. Things are in a pretty bad air Immediately over the heads of As Schmolz swaggered into hit Mole's troops, which made possible jam here, sir." room with a muttered imprecation, the dangerous operation of daylight "I'll be frank with you, FlagwiU!" 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